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US: Want to see a square tomato?
You’ve probably heard of people battling it out for the honor of growing the first tomato of the season, the biggest tomato, or the tallest plants.
Walter Stuka may have one-upped them all by growing square tomatoes.
Stuka, who lives near Gibsonville, got the idea after hearing about people in Japan growing square watermelons. Online news accounts say farmers grow the fruit in glass squares to make it assume the unnatural shape.
The square watermelons fit more easily into refrigerators and are easier to slice.
Stuka grew square tomatoes for the first time last year and did it again this year. He used two plywood boxes one of his friends, Ralph Thompson, made for him.
“When it gets to be a certain size, you just put this around it,” he said, holding up a box. “When they grow, they just square up.” One box has a raised “W” carved in it to represent his first name, but Stuka said it didn’t work too well in imprinting the initial on the tomato. Stuka is 80. He’s grown tomatoes off and on since he was 10.
“I usually plant about 100 (tomato plants),” he said. “But this year, since I can’t get around too good, I just planted 30.” Stuka is from Wyoming. He moved to North Carolina in 1974 after retiring from 28 years in the U.S. Air Force. He served in Korea and Vietnam. The medals he earned include the Distinguished Flying Cross, which he received after manually releasing activated bombs that failed to drop during a flight over Korea.
He and his late wife, Lorene, have four children: Joe Bob Stuka, Wally Stuka, Sandra Nunn and Lori Lafferty. He has six grandchildren.
Source: thetimesnews.com
You’ve probably heard of people battling it out for the honor of growing the first tomato of the season, the biggest tomato, or the tallest plants.
Walter Stuka may have one-upped them all by growing square tomatoes.
Stuka, who lives near Gibsonville, got the idea after hearing about people in Japan growing square watermelons. Online news accounts say farmers grow the fruit in glass squares to make it assume the unnatural shape.
The square watermelons fit more easily into refrigerators and are easier to slice.
Stuka grew square tomatoes for the first time last year and did it again this year. He used two plywood boxes one of his friends, Ralph Thompson, made for him.
“When it gets to be a certain size, you just put this around it,” he said, holding up a box. “When they grow, they just square up.” One box has a raised “W” carved in it to represent his first name, but Stuka said it didn’t work too well in imprinting the initial on the tomato. Stuka is 80. He’s grown tomatoes off and on since he was 10.
“I usually plant about 100 (tomato plants),” he said. “But this year, since I can’t get around too good, I just planted 30.” Stuka is from Wyoming. He moved to North Carolina in 1974 after retiring from 28 years in the U.S. Air Force. He served in Korea and Vietnam. The medals he earned include the Distinguished Flying Cross, which he received after manually releasing activated bombs that failed to drop during a flight over Korea.
He and his late wife, Lorene, have four children: Joe Bob Stuka, Wally Stuka, Sandra Nunn and Lori Lafferty. He has six grandchildren.
Source: thetimesnews.com
Publication date: 8/20/2007
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